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  • Wing’s drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts

    Source: Engadget

    “Don’t be surprised if you see even more drones delivering groceries across the US since the Alphabet-owned Wing announced another service expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said that drone delivery services will be available at 150 more Walmart locations in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Miami and more metros that have yet to be announced. According to Wing, its top 25 percent of customers have ordered its delivery drones up to three times a week. To meet growing demand, Wing and Walmart said it will serve up to 40 million US customers and build up a network of 270 delivery locations by 2027.” (01/11/26)

    https://www.engadget.com/transportation/wings-drone-deliveries-are-coming-to-150-more-walmarts-180708189.html

  • UN’s top court opens landmark Myanmar Rohingya genocide case

    Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

    “The top court of the United Nations has opened a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar’s military deliberately targeted the Rohingya minority in a bid to destroy the community, The Gambia’s Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday. … The trial is the first genocide case the ICJ has taken up in full in more than a decade, and its outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, likely affecting South Africa’s petition against Israel over its genocidal war on Gaza. The hearings will span three weeks.” (01/12/26)

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/12/un-top-court-set-to-open-myanmar-rohingya-genocide-case

  • Noem Threatens Minneapolis Gang Activity Escalation After Motorist’s Murder

    Source: Time

    “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem vowed on Sunday to send ‘hundreds more’ federal agents to Minneapolis as thousands continue to protest the [murder] of a woman by an immigration officer last week. … Noem’s announcement came a day after tens of thousands took to the streets of Minneapolis to protest over the [murder] of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an immigration officer and the continued presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the city. Good, a mother of three and a poet, was [murdered] in front of her partner while inside her car on Wednesday. Those protests have since spread across the country.” (01/11/26)

    https://time.com/7345325/ice-minneapolis-kristi-noem/


  • The Machinery of Terror

    Source: The Chris Hedges Report
    by Chris Hedges

    “I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. … I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming. Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships. It eliminates dissidents. It silences critics. It dismantles the law. It creates a society of timid and frightened collaborators, those who look away when people are snatched off streets or gunned down, those who inform to save themselves, those who retreat into their tiny rabbit holes, pulling down the blinds, desperately praying to be left in peace. Terror works.” (01/11/26)

    https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

  • Don’t mourn the fall of the “rules-based order”

    Source: spiked
    by Tim Black

    “On 3 January, US special forces removed Venezuela’s president and brutal despot Nicolás Maduro from power. A few hours later, at a hastily arranged press conference, US president Donald Trump seemed even more pleased with himself than usual. Perhaps his excitement explains the Freudian slip. ‘I watched last night one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty,’ he said, before quickly correcting himself – ‘I mean, it was an attack for justice.’ But the truth was out. … But Trump’s legion loathers among our political and cultural elites are not seeing the Venezuela intervention as an attack on national sovereignty. No, they’re casting it above all as an attack on the so-called rules-based order itself.” (01/11/26)

    https://archive.is/9fTcH

  • Innovation Over Ideology

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Simon Sarevski

    “To understand the story of the bicycle, we need to travel back to the late 19th century — a time when people’s mobility was restricted not by laws but by technology and wealth, or rather, by the lack of both. Travel required a horse, and a horse was neither cheap nor easy to maintain. For women, the barriers were even higher: social norms and safety in some cultures required a chaperone, making any trip more complicated and costly. The bicycle changed that, and in the words of the pioneering women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, this simple machine ‘has done more to emancipate women than any other thing in the world.'” (01/11/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/innovation-over-ideology/

  • Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein, and Moral Relativism in An Age of Lesser Evils

    Source: exile in happy valley
    by Nicky Reid

    America, just like the Catholic Church, decimated and abused the innocent quite simply because they could. Every reason they supplied to the public was nothing more than another empty excuse for the perversion of naked power. The government, my government, didn’t give a flying fuck about fighting communism. In fact, they supported it when it suited them in Cambodia just to destabilize Vietnam. And they didn’t give a flying fuck about democracy either. … It was a harsh lesson to teach a pissed-off teenager, but it was also the only lesson that passed the smell test with her because I was already intimately familiar with the savagery that pious adults were capable of when they could convince themselves that they were armed with moral superiority.” (01/11/26)

    https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/01/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-and-moral.html

  • War and the Growth of the American State in the 19th Century

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Joseph Solis-Mullen

    “From the colonial frontier to the battlefields of Gettysburg, war has been both a crucible and a mirror for the American experiment. Historians from Charles Tilly to Allan Millett have long emphasized the centrality of warfare in the formation of modern states, arguing that ‘war made the state and the state made war.’ Yet, in the American case, this process unfolded within a republican framework that ostensibly distrusted standing armies and centralized power. The tension between libertarian ideals and the exigencies of war defined the nation’s evolution from fragile confederation to continental empire.” (01/11/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/uncategorized/war-and-the-growth-of-the-american-state-in-the-19th-century/